Concept

Pseudepigrapha

Overview

texts attributed to authors who did not write them, especially Jewish and Christian writings from the Second Temple period attributed to biblical figures; a form of authorized heteronymic authorship in ancient scribal culture

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Philosophers who discussed Pseudepigrapha

• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
• Roger Bacon
• Demetrius of Phalerum
• Al-Ma'arri

Related ideas

• Eusebius
• Sartor Resartus
• Greek language
• Gershom Scholem
• Gospel of Luke
• Gospel of Matthew
• Gospel of John
• Thomas Carlyle
• Heaven
• Jorge Luis Borges
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Kabbalah
• Latin
• Muhammad
• Ascension of Isaiah
• New Testament
• German Renaissance
• Origen
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
• Roman Empire
• Protestantism
• Spain
• Renaissance humanism
• The Lord of the Rings

Place in the tradition

Part of Spanish philosophy.

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